Four-Year Judo Ban of Iran Ends bignewsnetwork.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bignewsnetwork.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iran announce end of painful four-year ban from judo in time for Hangzhou 2022 insidethegames.biz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insidethegames.biz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iranian weightlifter Mustafa Rajaei was banned for shaking hands with the Israel athlete, breaking the national federation's policy on Israel normalisation.
Arash Miresmaeili has been re-elected as President of the Iranian Judo
Federation despite being at the centre of the controversy which led to
the organisation being suspended.
Three years, two nationalities and one pandemic later, Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei finally faced his Israeli opponent and now best friend Sagi Muki, on the mat. Their unlikely friendship, the topic of an upcoming television series, began in 2019 when the Iranian regime threatened Mollaei for planning to fight Muki at the world championships a violation of Tehran’s sports boycott of Israel.